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Information about Housing Benefit from your local council - apply to help pay your rent
Housing Benefit or Local Housing Allowance (LHA) - rates, eligibility, claim form, calculator, appeals, 'Discretionary Housing Payment'.
Housing Benefit can help you pay your rent if you’re unemployed, on a low…
You may get help with all or part of your rent. There’s no set amount of…
You’ll need to provide some information and evidence to support your claim…
Housing Benefit is being replaced by Universal Credit. Most people will…
You need to report a change of circumstances for you and anyone else in…
Housing Benefit will not cover heating, hot water, energy or food. If you…
Speed of processing is a measure of the average time it takes to process a new Housing Benefit claim or a change of circumstance to an existing Housing Benefit claim.
Universal Credit can include help with housing costs - paying your landlord, what to do if you cannot pay your rent, other help you can get.
Contact your local council to appeal against a Housing Benefit decision
Statistics on Housing Benefit including the numbers receiving it and the amount received. Includes Council Tax Benefit data to 2013.
Statistics and background information on Housing Benefit entitlement reductions identified by local authorities as a proportion of expected reductions.
You can continue to get Housing Benefit for 2 weeks after you move to Universal Credit.
Statistics on the amount of Housing Benefit that is overpaid to claimants, the overpayments recovered and amounts written off.
Adjudication circulars provide updates to the Housing Benefit guidance manual for local authority staff.
Tax and reporting rules for employers providing accommodation for employees
This is the local authority Housing Benefit expenditure and subsidy data.
Factsheet for claimants of Housing Benefit explaining what happens to their benefit when earnings increase.
Official information British people moving to and living in the United States of America (USA) need to know, including residency, healthcare and driving.
This guidance provides support for local authorities with their decision-making for processing Housing Benefit claims from individuals living in supported housing.
These Housing Benefit (subsidy) Assurance Process modules are for reporting accountants and local authorities to use.
Toolkit for local authorities, housing providers and support organisations in the social rented sector, providing information on the removal of the spare room subsidy.
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